Warlord
05-30-2013, 05:30 PM
CHICAGO -A federal judge has sentenced a Lebanese immigrant to 23 years in prison for placing a backpack he believed contained a bomb along a bustling street near the Chicago Cubs' baseball stadium.
Sami Samir Hassoun was sentenced Thursday, little more than a month after the Boston Marathon bomb attack.
The 25-year-old former baker pleaded guilty last year to dropping the backpack into a trash can outside a bar packed with late-night revelers across the road from Wrigley Field in 2010. FBI undercover agents had given him the bag.
The defense depicted Hassoun as a uniquely gullible youth sucked into the sting during an alcohol-addled stretch of his life by an informant eager to please his FBI handlers.
But prosecutors say he declined repeated opportunities to back out of the plot.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/30/Would-be-Chicago-backpack-bomber-gets-23-years
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Related: The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?415539-The-Terror-Factory-Inside-the-FBI-s-Manufactured-War-on-Terrorism)
FBI hatch on average 1 terror plot a month and pay con men and known criminals hundreds of thousands of dollars in bounties:
Boston Marathon bombings reignite debate over terror stings
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/boston-marathon-bombings-terrorism-stings-91584.html
Sami Samir Hassoun was sentenced Thursday, little more than a month after the Boston Marathon bomb attack.
The 25-year-old former baker pleaded guilty last year to dropping the backpack into a trash can outside a bar packed with late-night revelers across the road from Wrigley Field in 2010. FBI undercover agents had given him the bag.
The defense depicted Hassoun as a uniquely gullible youth sucked into the sting during an alcohol-addled stretch of his life by an informant eager to please his FBI handlers.
But prosecutors say he declined repeated opportunities to back out of the plot.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/30/Would-be-Chicago-backpack-bomber-gets-23-years
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Related: The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?415539-The-Terror-Factory-Inside-the-FBI-s-Manufactured-War-on-Terrorism)
FBI hatch on average 1 terror plot a month and pay con men and known criminals hundreds of thousands of dollars in bounties:
Boston Marathon bombings reignite debate over terror stings
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/boston-marathon-bombings-terrorism-stings-91584.html